About 1 month after getting the computer, it would randomly freeze, forcing me to manually restart and greeting me with "Disk read error" messages. It would do this even 30 minutes into a fresh reformat (NTFS), and I've had many computer's before (on XP) and never this problem before.

The shop, replaced the Seagate with a Western Digital HD and upgraded the BIOS to help prevent video memory corruption (?) and said my problems should be over. But, now, 4 weeks later, my game (Natural Selection) freezes, forces me to restart manually, and presents "Disk read error" messages.

What can cause this ? I only have a few Steam installed games (CS, CS:S, DoD, DOD:S, Hl1, Hl2), Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Battlefield 2, a large selection of movies, and thats it. My drivers are updated (video card, sound, mobo) and i hadn't recently installed anything (within 24hours).

Is it a fault of the NTFS file system ? Should I reformat into FAT32 ??

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